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Back when the last mile was a real problem, people got pretty inventive with using directional antennas to establish links over vast distances using unlicensed
by gtrubetskoy 9y ago
Back when the last mile was a real problem, people got pretty inventive with using directional antennas to establish links over vast distances using unlicensed spectrum, which as far as I know is totally legal still.
Here's a Cringely blog from 2001-ish:
https://web.archive.org/web/20011215000823/http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010628.html https://web.archive.org/web/20011215000823/http://www.pbs.or...
- topspin 9y agoI did this for a few years in the late 90's, before anything better than POTS was available in my area. Used a 2.4 GHz 24 dBi antenna on my roof to reach an access point on a mountain about 7 miles away. This worked well; the network operators were competent and the service was more reliable than some of the systems I've had since.